HMS Swiftsure (S126)
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| Name: | HMS Swiftsure |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Vickers |
| Launched: | 7 September 1971 |
| Commissioned: | 17 April 1973 |
| Decommissioned: | 1992 |
| Fate: | Decommissioned |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Swiftsure-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 4,900 tonnes (dived) |
| Length: | 82.9 m (272 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in) |
| Draught: | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
| Speed: | In excess of 20 knots (37 km/h), dived |
| Complement: | 116 officers and men |
| Armament: | 5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes Spearfish torpedoes RN Sub Harpoon missiles |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Swiftsure.
HMS Swiftsure (S126) was the lead ship of her class of nuclear fleet submarines. HMS Swiftsure was decommissioned in 1992, due to damage suffered to the pressure hull during trials.
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